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by jussij 6y ago
Shareware was born around that time and that model relied on BBS for it's distribution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareware#History
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This is even more amazing when you consider the modems of that era had download rates that started at 300 baud. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem#300_baud It's a great indicator of how software download size has
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That 30% is a cost to Epic and that cost has to be paid by someone. Just like any other cost, more often than not these costs are just passed on to the customer.
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In the former case all the teenagers did was send in an RSVP indicating they would attend knowing full well they would not be doing so. In the later case foreign entities were spreading misinformation in an attempt to undermine candidates,
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Windows 10 also does it's best to try and stop users from running unsigned code, by making the UI complicated. When Windows 10 finds an unsigned installer it shows a dialog with a Don't Run button and as the name suggest clicking
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by jussij 6y ago
The Windows applications can still access this information using the __argc and __argv global variables: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/argc-...
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When talking about mortality rates I don't think it is easy to make a comparison of these two virus. Firstly, the medical technologies of 1918 were nothing like what we have today. For example, even though it would have been no help fi
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> Couldn't tell an average from a median. Shouldn't that be tell a mean from a median?
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I don't doubt the problem is difficult and it has only been made more difficult by the fact what is a public health issue has somehow morphed into a party political issue. But I'm not sure just giving and not trying to do anything
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I don't think the CDC is looking at this as some sort of controlled test requiring scientific vigor with peer reviewed results. Instead I think the CDC is trying to understand why US COVID-19 cases are growing at 70 thousand cases a da
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To be fair I suspect this part of that sentence explains the reason for choice of these special character: From Go's perspective, that's just one long identifier. The designer was using those characters to trick the Go compiler
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> I wonder what good things this will do for the UK. Firstly this would bring UK a lot of respect from the world community as any country prepared to stand up to the rule of law will always look good. Next, before China started messing w
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by jussij 6y ago
I remember back in 1987 going to my local pub/bar and paying $1.40 for a beer. You only needed $20.00 in your pocket to have a really good night out. These days you pay between $5.00 and $6.00 for the same beverage with some establishm
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The OP is just pointing out you live in a community. So this is not just about what is good for you, but instead what is good for the community. For example, having you out of quarantine early might be good for you, but it will definitely n
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by jussij 6y ago
I would say Fox News is a classic example of a Rupert Murdoch news outlet. And since Murdoch likes to run his news outlets with an iron fist, these news outlets tend to report the news in a manner that strongly reflects Murdoch's think
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On Windows the executable will most likely only have access to 2 GB of memory. The Windows PE header contains the LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag which controls the memory available to the executable. When that flag is off (i.e. the Microsoft recomm
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by jussij 6y ago
> First, TextMate / Sublime style syntax highlighting is not really all that great. It is quite slow, largely because it grinds through a lot of regular expressions with captures, and it is also not very precise. The tree-sitter fra
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> What does this mean? Since the company has filed for insolvency the shares can no longer be traded. > Is it guaranteed that shares of a company that files for insolvency are worth 0? When a company files for insolvency it means the
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by jussij 6y ago
Australia did have a plan for a 21st century fiber optic broadband network, but the party suggesting that solution lost the election. The election winners won with the help of a promised to build a better network at a quarter of the price,
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Since Silver and Gold are priced in $USD their price is influenced by the actions of the US government. One of those driving forces is the current US monetary policies (i.e. an growing budget deficit). Another factor is perceived risk. Sinc
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> Meanwhile inflation would have made that G4 ~2700 today. Which of the inputs going into making that device would have applied any inflationary pressure? Most if not all the parts would have probably got cheaper over that time and wage
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The US never convince the rest of the world their evidence was strong even though Powell tried his best. That is why the United Nations Security Council never past a resolution authorizing the Iraq invasion and instead the US had to settle
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Don't let a few facts get in the way of that good story: The yellowcake removed from Iraq in 2008 was material that had long since been identified, documented, and stored in sealed containers under the supervision of U.N. inspectors.
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Apple spent a lot of money selling the idea the Mac was totally different to the PC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eEG5LVXdKo
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> Nobody believes the WMD lie any more. Not many believed it at the time: https://www.theregister.com/2003/07/03/google_bombed_by_miss... NOTE: Check the date off that page.
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That still leaves 40,000 people who are in on that lie.
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They not only sold lie to the US they sold it to the world. Colin Powell stood up at the UN to present the world his Power Point of lies: https://theintercept.com/2018/02/06/lie-after-lie-what-colin...
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> The 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' lie could be described using the exact same sentence, and that wasn’t even twenty years ago. Expect Hans Blix exposed that lie very shortly those words where uttered: https://www.t
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The way I look at this is Zack reminds me of the collective group of people who truly struggle with basic science. As Armstrong points out in his reply, it only takes a very basic level of scientific/forensic examination to easily prov
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Armstrong's reference to the moon reflectors brought back memories of this classic Big Bang clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e5CtbbZL-k&feature=youtu.be In this context I can easily imagine that Zack is the t

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